Google Cloud Exits Jay Paul Offices for Massive Campus Lease

Google is emptying out office buildings in Sunnyvale and moving Google Cloud operations into its Caribbean office campus in the Silicon Valley city.

The corporation’s cloud computing division will move into the 1.5-million-square-foot complex by next month, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported. Google began developing the two-building campus at 100 and 200 West Caribbean Drive in 2017 with designs provided by Bjarke Ingels Group.

The office campus can accommodate up to 4,500 workers, according to the Mercury News. Google did not specify how many Google Cloud employees will be relocated.

Meanwhile, Google Cloud will vacate a group of office buildings elsewhere in Sunnyvale. The company is leaving offices owned by real estate developer Jay Paul Company in Sunnyvale’s Moffett Park neighborhood, sources familiar with the move told the Business Journal. The exact number of buildings Google is exiting was not disclosed.

Google leased more than 500,000 square feet of offices in Moffett Park from Jay Paul in early 2020. Google, let by Sundar Pichai, has reportedly been looking to leave those offices since last year.

Google has been consolidating its office holdings in the Bay Area in recent years and has backed off of two major developments in the region..

In 2023, it paused development on its Downtown West project, which was set to feature office, retail and apartments in downtown San Jose. Work on that project hasn’t restarted.

That same year, the company announced it would cut 1.4 million square feet of offices to save money and convert some of its campuses in the Bay Area into housing to help with the state’s housing shortage.

Last year, the company began looking for a buyer for a 40-acre site in Mountain View where it planned to build a mixed-use development with housing and offices.

— Chris Malone Méndez